Cigar-drill



R. R. BAILEY.

CIGAR DRILL. APPLICATION FILED APR. I4. I9 I9.

Patented IIuIy 69 IIQZ.,

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specification of Letters ll'atent.

Patented duly d, indd.,

.Application led April Ml, i919. Serial lilo. 289,973.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, Bonner lt. Barrier, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of @ook and dtate of lllinois, have invented certain new and useful improvements in liga.r-llrills, of which the following is a specification.

lilly invention relates to a device for drilling a hole in the tip of a cigar' so that it been constructed to pierce or cut a hole in4 the end of a cigar, but such devices have been either complicated and, therefore, ei;- pensive to manufacture, or have not accent plished the desired result. ln piercing a cigar the spear is forced axially into the tip which. results in the tobacco being wedged or compressed around. the spear, the tobacco reimiining in that condition after the spear has been withdrawn and in such condition the cigar will not draw well.

rlhe object of my invention is to provide a device which will be of simple construction, inexpensive to manufacture, easy and convenient to manipulate, and which will bore er drill a hole in the tip of a cigar, remove 'therefrom the tobacco pulverized by the drilling operation, and leave the tobacco around the bore loose so that the cigar will draw as freely as though the tip had `been cut oit', but without the resultant tendency of the binder becoming loose and unwinding.

lilly invention will be better understood by reference to the accompanying drawing, illustrating certain preferred embodiments, in which.:

Figure l is a side elevational view embodying certain principles of my invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged end elevational view of the device shown in Fig. l, looking to ward the end adapted to receive the tip of a cigar;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view of the device;

Fig. 4l is a cross sectional view taken on the line l-t of lf 3.

llibre characters of reference designate like parts in the several views.

.tiefer-ring iirst to Figs. l to l inclusive, the cigar drill comprises a tubular body member l0 and a twist drill l1 axially disposed 'therein and mounted in lone end of the rotatable and longitudially movable shaft l2 on the other endmf which a handle 13 is provided. @ne end of the tubular body member is enlarged and is provided with a bell-shaped recess le; adapted to receive the tip of a cigar and the other end is formed with an arial bore l5. rlFhe inner end of the slizift l2 is enlarged, but smoothed olf so it will rotate and slide freely within the bore l5, and forms a bearing for the drill. 'll he tubular body member is provided with an aperture le in the bottom of the recess lll; through which the drill. may project, which aperture serves also as a bearing or guide for the drill. '.l` he handle 18 may be knuf-led to facilitate turning the same. Preferably a 'plural ity of apertures 17 are provided in the tubular member at the end of the bore, so that the tobacco pulverized by the drilling operation may sift out when the drill is withdrawn from the cigar. After the drill has been mounted in the end of the shaft l2 the parts are placed in the tubular member and the small end of the tubular member turned over by spinning to form a shoulder 'i8 to hold the parts in place. rl. he drilling operation is performed by first pressing the tip of a cigar into the bell-shaped. recess let and then turning the drill ll until the handle 13 travels up to the end of the body member. then be twirled back and forth a few times to clear the hole formed in the end of the cigar of the pulverized tobacco.

l claim:

il cigar drill comprising, in combination, a member, one end of which is in the form of a hollow cylinder and the other end in the form of a substantially conical socket, adapted to receive the closed end of a cigar, which is rigid with the cylinder and has a The drill may bore opening into the seme, a guide plunger loosely ittng into the cylinder so that it may be rotated or moved beek and forth by movements independent of each other, e twist drill rigidly Connected with said plunger and adapted to be projected through the bore into the socket, and a stem rigidly connected with the plunger extending through the other end of the cylinder whereby the drill may be forced through the l0 end of e cigar in the socket by :t twisting movement and Withdrawn from the sume by :t straight longitudinal movement to make a olea-n perforation in the end of the cigar.

ROBERT R. BAILEY. 

